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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822977303321

Autore

Cooley Angela Jill

Titolo

To live and dine in Dixie : the evolution of urban food culture in the Jim Crow South / / Angela Jill Cooley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Georgia ; ; London, [England] : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8203-4759-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place

Disciplina

394.1/20975

Soggetti

Food habits - Southern States - History

Food - Social aspects - Southern States - History

Cooking, American - Southern style - History

Southern States Social life and customs

Southern States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Ollie's Barbecue Case and the Foodscape of the Urban South; PART 1 SOUTHERN FOOD CULTURE IN TRANSITION, 1876-1935; CHAPTER ONE: Scientific Cooking and Southern Whiteness; CHAPTER TWO: Southern Cafés as Contested Urban Space; PART 2 DEMOCRATIZING SOUTHERN FOODWAYS, 1936-1959; CHAPTER THREE: Southern Norms and National Culture; CHAPTER FOUR: Restaurant Chains and Fast Food; PART 3 THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION, 1960-1975; CHAPTER FIVE: The Politics of the Lunch Counter; CHAPTER SIX: White Resistance in Segregated Restaurants

Conclusion: Cracker Barrel and the Southern StrategyNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on the 1900s to



the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural differences between activists who saw public eating places like urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and believed access to such spaces a right of citizenship, and white supremacists who interpreted desegregation as a challenge to property rights a